The Steel City Coffee House in Phoenixville will hold an exhibit through Jan. 25 featuring the work of the Ursinus College Photography Club.

The display will not be available for viewing during any regularly scheduled performance at Steel City; call Steel City or check website for details.

Steel City Coffee House is located at 203 Bridge St., Phoenixville. For information, call 610-933-4043 or visit www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com.

Through November, Newtown Square Public Library will feature the work of local artist Eleanor Schimmel, which is done in the ancient medium of encaustic. Encaustic is a blend of bee’s wax, damar varnish and powdered pigments that are heated to a molten stage and then poured or brushed onto a wooden surface. Using a blowtorch, the artist can then move the pigmented wax across the surface before a drawing or etching into the surface.

The library is located at 201 Bishop Hollow Road, Newtown Square. Call 610-353-1022 for hours and directions, or visit www.newtownlibrary.org.

Brandywine River Museum presents the following exhibitions:

Pop-Up! Illustration in 3-D, on view starting Nov. 23, presents the wondrous world of pop-up books. With pages that spring open to reveal pictures that self-construct into three dimensional illustrations, the pop-up form is used for an infinite variety of subjects for both children and adults, ranging from classic tales and elementary instruction to Bible stories and scientific topics.

The Brandywine River Museum, located on Rt. 1 in Chadds Ford, is open every day (except Christmas Day) from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Museum offers free admission Sunday mornings from 9:30 a.m. – noon. For information, call 610-388-2700 or visit the website at www.brandywinemuseum.org.

The stained glass artwork of Chester County artist Robert Horan will be on display at the Delaware Museum of Natural History through Jan. 6, 2013. The windows coincide with the Rainforest Adventure theme of the exhibit.

The museum is located at 4840 Kennett Pike, in Wilmington. For information, visit delmnh.org. or call 302-658-9111.

The Chester County Art Association presents:

The photography of CCAA executive director Darcie Goldberg will be on view Nov. 16-Dec. 21.

CCAA is located at 100 N. Bradford Ave., West Chester. Normal gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday – Saturday, Closed Sundays and Mondays. Galleries are open to the public and admission is free. Call 610-696-5600.

CCAA’s Exton Square Studio is located on the lower floor of the Exton Square Mall beside H&M and Boscov’s. Gallery Hours at Exton are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For information, call 610-524-1925 or visit www.chestercountyarts.org.

Chadds Ford Gallery presents its 31st annual Christmas in Miniature Exhibit opening, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit will continue through Dec. 31. The framed artwork, created in all mediums, oil, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, pastel and colored pencil; each artists’ piece is a small treasure, with nothing larger than 12” x 14” overall framed. Some of the featured artists, represented, will have larger original artwork, open, signed and signed limited editions for sale. There are more than 70 artists participating.

The gallery is located at 1609 Baltimore Pike (Route 1 South, after the Brandywine Battlefield, before Brandywine Prime Restaurant) – Chadds Ford. Open Tuesday through Saturday 10-5 and Sunday Noon to 5. No Admission Fee – For more Information call 610-388-2412 or visit www.awyethgallery.com

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art is holding several exhibitions:

Four Visions/Four Painters: Murray Dessner, Bruce Samuelson, Elizabeth Osborne and Vincent Desiderio runs through Jan. 13, in the Main Gallery.

Interstitial Spaces: Void and Object, Recent Works by Roger Chavez, through Jan. 13, in the H.F. and Marguerite Lenfest Gallery in the Henry W. and June Pfeiffer Wing.

The museum joins museums throughout the United States that serve visitors with special needs with Access-Ability: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Art For Access, in the Upper Gallery through Dec. 3. The exhibition launches a series of initiatives to make the Museum’s collections more fully accessible to a wide range of differently-abled constituents. This exhibition will present pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection in the context of best practices, including verbal description and multi-sensory tours, 3D tactile diagrams of 2D works of art and specialized guided tours for visitors living with dementia.

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Collegeville is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and noon to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The Museum is closed Mondays and college holidays.

The Station Gallery will feature Michele Green “Way to the Water ~ New Paintings,” through Nov. 30. Green focuses on painting some of the more remote areas of the Delmarva Peninsula

The Station Gallery is located at 3922 Kennett Pike, Greenville, Del. For information, call 302-654-8638 or visit www.stationgallery.net.

Darlington Arts Center presents a public exhibition of watercolor paintings by Glen Mills artist Florence Stiefeld. Her work focuses on capturing the peaceful beauty of the Brandywine Valley as well as the tropical beaches along the Gulf of Mexico.

The show will be open to the public through Nov. 27. Gallery hours are Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sat. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information visit www.darlingtonarts.org or call 610-358-3632.

Darlington Arts Center is at 977 Shavertown Road in Garnet Valley. For more information, visit www.darlingtonarts.org or call 610-358-3632.

Through November, the photography of Conrad Wolff, Seawolf Photography, will be on display at the Blue Cafe in Downingtown. The Blue Cafe is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day except Monday.

The Blue Cafe is located at 100 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Building 100, in Downingtown. For information, visit www.ourbluecafe.com or call 610-873-1700.

The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts announces the following exhibitions:

A solo exhibition of Philadelphia artist Kelly Kozma titled Play Next Episode will be on view through Dec. 16, in DCCA’s Beckler Family Members’ Gallery. Kozma uses colored pencil on paper, sewn with brightly colored embroidery thread to create organo-geometric drawings that evolve through her process.

West Chester artist Alison Stigora’s Natural Forces is on view through Dec. 9 in DCCA’s Constance S. and Robert J. Hennessy Project Space. Stigora’s whole-room installation of burnt wood, sticks, and cardboard is the artist’s three-dimensional interpretation of the past, present and future.

The solo exhibition of Philadelphia artist Nicholas Kripal titled Contrivance is on view through Jan. 6, in DCCA’s E. Avery Draper Gallery. The exhibition features more than 70 ceramic forms of hybrid ceramic sculptures made from molds of throwaway food containers from the 1920s to the present.

The solo exhibition of artist Joseph Girandola titled Rise and Fall: Monumental Duct Tape Drawings is on view from through Feb. 10, 2013 in DCCA’s DuPont I Gallery. The exhibition features large-scale “drawings” using duct tape as the primary medium.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is located at 200 S. Madison St., Wilmington, Del. For information, call 302-656-6466 or visit thedcca.org.

The first exhibition presents the artist as seeker, storyteller, observer, and dreamer. Most of these artists begin and end with themselves as principle reference point, and their work becomes an exploration both of self as self, and self in relation to or affected by the “outside” world: Rachel Bliss, Diane Burko, Syd Carpenter, Susan Fenton, Catherine Jansen, Kate Javens, Celia Reisman, Peter Rose, Jack Thompson and Robert Winokur.

The museum is located at 138 South Pine St., Doylestown. Museum hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 4:30 pm; Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday noon to 5 pm. Admission: Members and children under 6, free; adults $12.50; seniors $11.50; college students with valid ID $9.50; ages 6-18 $6; under 6 free. For more information, visit www.michenerartmuseum.org or call 215-340-9800.

The Delaware Art Museum presents the following exhibits:

On view through Jan. 13, 2013, Centennial Juried Exhibition commemorates the museum’s past annual exhibitions of painting and crafts — which combined to form the Biennial in 1989. This 97-artist exhibition (featuring 98 individual works of art) honors the tradition of juried exhibitions in Delaware and the surrounding region while identifying the artistic trends that will characterize the region’s future.

Main Line Unitarian Church will feature the work of Emmy Lou Packard, friend of Frieda Kahlo and student of Diego Rivera, on view in the Fireside Room from Nov. 25 through Dec. 31. The church is located at 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon. For information, call 484-341-8014 or visit www.mluc.org. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 am-4:30 pm; Sun, 9 am-2 pm. Public is welcome.

Virginia Abrams will present an exhibition titled Reflections and Transitions in the Delaware Division of the Arts Mezzanine Gallery through Nov. 30. It will include art quilts with abstract designs inspired by observations of the natural world.

The Gallery, open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is located in the Carvel State Office Building, 820 N. French Street, Wilmington.